Sharps - Russell family in Cumberland

There is a John Palmer Sharp in this document b.1862 probably in Maryport which is where the Sharp legend has our roots planted.

Somewhere else there is "The Dykes was a 235 ton brigantine built at Maryport by John Peat in 1798. She was registered at Maryport all of her life, and in 1840 was noted as being owned by William Atkinson and others, master Capt.John Sharp. The Dykes was noted as "totally lost" on the 16th September 1848"

There was also a Capt. Robert Glaister Sharp around this time sailing from MAryport